Saturday, May 1, 2010

Botched primary job

Christopher Hitchens, avowed atheist, has an essay in Newsweek wondering why the Pope hasn't been brought in for questioning about his role in the growing child molestation scandal. He goes on to document that for many years as Cardinal Ratzinger his main job was damage control around the scandal and he did a mighty poor job of it. That questioning may happen. Various victim lawsuits are making their way towards the European Court of Human Rights and the International Criminal Court. The pope can't be granted diplomatic immunity because no country regards Vatican City as a separate state. So if the pope travels away from Rome -- he's planning a trip to Britain soon -- one of the scandal's victims could hand him a subpoena. Alas, Newsweek search doesn't provide a link.

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